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Hayley mills parent trap free movie12/20/2023 ![]() ![]() When Sharon was pretending to be Susan, and Susan was pretending to be Sharon, I couldn’t quite remember whose voice I was supposed to have and what accent I was supposed to have, so the accent wavered a little bit. It was actually very confusing, at times. I would play one side of the screen as say Susan, and then go and change my clothes and play the scene with my double as Sharon. It was quite basic, but it was very effective. There were very few films that had been done like that. ![]() I had a photographic double called Susan Henning, and she was a very nice, sweet girl. Great credit goes to the director, David Swift, because he kept it fun and he didn’t let me see the sweat and the stress, if we were running over or anything like that. ![]() MILLS: Yes, it was challenging, but it was great fun as well. What was that experience like, as an actor? Were there challenges specific to that, especially doing that at that time? You got to do something in Parent Trap that not a lot of actors get to do, which is playing twins. He even went on the cup and saucer ride, which makes every grownup throw up. It was interesting, they recognized him, they were thrilled to see him, and they were delighted, but they didn’t mob him. He walked everywhere, and they didn’t mob him. We stayed there overnight, and he drove us there. He talked to me and gave me a Coca Cola, but then he chatted with my parents. I was extremely lucky because my father was a big star and my mother was a very vivacious, lovely, witty woman and a very good writer and, and they were great company. He wanted to see me about Pollyanna, but I don’t remember him talking about it even. He was just a guy in a yellow cardigan, and he was really friendly to me and my brother, Johnny. But he was so normal and sweet and lovely and unassuming. When I was going to see him in London at the Dorchester Hotel, I went with my parents and my younger brother, Jonathan, and my parents were so excited. And then, it was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which I had nightmares about. The first film that I’d ever seen was Bambi. MILLS: Walt Disney was very famous, of course. When you got the call that Walt Disney wanted to meet you, was that a big deal at the time? What did that mean then? ![]()
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